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Re: [Refdb-users] Re: Problem with installation on Debian

[B. L. <bl...@he...>]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> You'll also have to add the line
> #include <errno.h>
> to the other includes at the top of the file.

Hi Markus,

There is another error message, it shows:

refdbd.c:117: parse error before `gotsignal'
refdbd.c:117: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
make[1]: *** [refdbd.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bl246/refdb/refdb-0.9.2/src'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

Thanks

Bin

[Refdb-users] ANN: RefDB 0.9.3-pre8 available for testing

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

once again I'd like to draw your attention to the latest prerelease of
RefDB. I've mainly ironed out a load of bugs related to
bibliographies.

I've also been trying to work on two bug reports but didn't have much
luck yet, so I'm calling for help on these issues:

1) There seems to be an issue with editing/updating records through
the web interface on some platforms. I can't reproduce it yet, so I'd
like everyone who has the web interface up and running to give it a
try. All you need to do is to display a random record, add a keyword
(or do any other minor change), and submit the change. If it doesn't
do what it should, please send me the log data.

2) There may be issues left with the XSLT FO driver files. I've fixed
a couple of case mismatches and incompatibilities with the latest
DocBook-XSL releases. Things work here ok for HTML output, but
I can't test PDF output currently. The toolchains are broke both on
Debian and on FreeBSD (this is unrelated to RefDB, even a minimal
DocBook document won't get transformed). If anyone has a working
FO->PDF toolchain, please try the bibliography stuff with an XML test
document and report any problems. I won't be able to fix anything
related to printed output from XML documents until the toolchains get
fixed. Yes, and if anyone knows how to fix them, please give
me a call!

These are the files to grab:

http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/refdb-0.9.3-pre8.tar.gz
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/RefDB-perlmod-0.3_pre1.tar.gz
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/pre/RefDBClient-Client-1.6.tar.gz

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] Re: Problem with installation on Debian

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

B. Liu writes:
 > I uninstalled the refdb, and installed it from the very begining, before
 > I make it, I put the line printf after the LOG_PRINT line, (I hope this
 > is the correct procedure.) but the error message shows as following:
 > refdbd.c: In function `main':
 > refdbd.c:696: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
 > refdbd.c:696: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
 > refdbd.c:696: for each function it appears in.)
 > make[1]: *** [refdbd.o] Error 1
 > 

Apologies for that. I should have tested this myself before letting
you try. You'll also have to add the line

#include <errno.h>

to the other includes at the top of the file.

BTW you don't have to uninstall everything in order to make the change
effective. Just run make && make install again.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] Re: Problem with installation on Debian

[B. L. <bl...@he...>]

Markus,

>Could you stick a line like:
>printf("errno went to %d\n", errno);
>into refdbd.c, right after the line (approx. 730):
>LOG_PRINT(LOG_WARNING, "accept failed");

I uninstalled the refdb, and installed it from the very begining, before
I make it, I put the line printf after the LOG_PRINT line, (I hope this
is the correct procedure.) but the error message shows as following:
refdbd.c: In function `main':
refdbd.c:696: `errno' undeclared (first use in this function)
refdbd.c:696: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
refdbd.c:696: for each function it appears in.)
make[1]: *** [refdbd.o] Error 1

What other declarations I should put in the refdbd.c or other files?

Thanks

Bin

Re: [Refdb-users] Author + title info in Greek and transliterated form - how ?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

nevermind. was in a hurry and didn't read very carefully :-)

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 07:26  PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> I've been away and busy, but on this:
>
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 04:57  AM, Luc Pardon wrote:
>
>>  So, next question. I thought I'd extend the syntax of the AU record, 
>> so I can sneak the Greek version in with add/updateref. Any 
>> suggestions on how to do that? "I don't care" is a valid answer <g>.
>
> Isn't it a better idea to use XML here?...

Re: [Refdb-users] Author + title info in Greek and transliterated form - how ?

[Bruce D'A. <da...@mu...>]

nevermind. was in a hurry and didn't read very carefully :-)

On Friday, August 1, 2003, at 07:26  PM, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:

> I've been away and busy, but on this:
>
> On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 04:57  AM, Luc Pardon wrote:
>
>>  So, next question. I thought I'd extend the syntax of the AU record, 
>> so I can sneak the Greek version in with add/updateref. Any 
>> suggestions on how to do that? "I don't care" is a valid answer <g>.
>
> Isn't it a better idea to use XML here?...

Re: [Refdb-users] Author + title info in Greek and transliterated form - how ?

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

I've been away and busy, but on this:

On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 04:57  AM, Luc Pardon wrote:

>  So, next question. I thought I'd extend the syntax of the AU record, 
> so I can sneak the Greek version in with add/updateref. Any 
> suggestions on how to do that? "I don't care" is a valid answer <g>.

Isn't it a better idea to use XML here?

Option 1: extend risx to allow use of an xml:lang attribute.

Option 2: use MODS and write a MODS --> risx xslt as a short term 
solution..

Bruce

Re: [Refdb-users] temp table select failed: An invalid or out-of-range index was passed to libdbi

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Chris Karakas writes:
 > (Sorry for the missing Subject line in my previous posting, I put the right one now)
 > 
 > >This happens when the server child process crashes :-O I've fixed a
 > >load of bugs in the bibliography code lately, so it would be really
 > >helpful if you could test the current CVS version. If you don't feel
 > >like building from CVS, please hold on a couple of days. I'll do
 > >another prerelease with the most recent bugfixes on the weekend or
 > >early next week.
 > >
 > 
 > Hmm... I think I'll wait for the moment. ;-)
 > 

It might be worth the wait. I ran your test data and the document
through runbib and it works just fine on my box. There's only a few
minor issues like the citation key case. The citation keys must be all
uppercase for SGML documents. 0.9.3 and the current prereleases have a
new refdbd switch (-U) and config file variable (upper_citekey) to
automatically uppercase all new citation keys.

Please try again with the next prerelease, due in a day or two. There
might still be a platform issue so testing is important for me.

regards,
Markus

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Re: [Refdb-users] (no subject)

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

Bruce D'Arcus writes:
 > Having been trying to convince the MODS people of the need for 
 > attributes to indicate unattributed and anonymous authors, I can tell 
 > you this is an important issue for me.  I've got records for articles 
 > with no author (for example, the Economist does not list author names 
 > on articles), records for which I know there is an author but cannot 
 > figure out what it is (think an archival document), and even a few real 
 > anonymous authors (which is different).
 > 
 > So, obviously I hope the bug gets fixed.  Longer term, maybe we can 
 > look at this issue for future revisions (of citestylex, etc.)?
 > 

I'll wait for some test data to see what's going on. I've fixed one
obvious pitfall in CVS: all references with no authors were treated as
subsequent entries of the same author in the bibliography stuff. There
may be some more potholes like this. Otherwise the styles do contain
provisions to deal with references without authors.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] Problem with installation on Debian too

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

B. Liu writes:
 > Other solutions?
 > 

No, not really. I'm at a loss. Could you stick a line like:

printf("errno went to %d\n", errno);

into refdbd.c, right after the line (approx. 730):

	    LOG_PRINT(LOG_WARNING, "accept failed");

This will at least tell us why it fails.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] Re: TY - BOOK .. missing info with refdbc and db31/db31x output-format

[Michael M. <Mic...@em...>]

I use the cvs version now and changed the T1 to BT
Every book info is exported ... great!

Mike


"Markus Hoenicka" <mar...@mh...> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Michael Maechtel writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > since i have to handle a lot of books, I've tested the 
>  > TY -- BOOK example which is part of testref.ris :
>  > 
>  > ---------
>  > TY  - BOOK
>  > ID  - smith1975metalloporphyrins
>  > T1  - Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins
> 
> My bad. Should be:
>  > BT  - Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins
> 
> 
>  > A1  - Smith,K.M.
>  > Y1  - 1975///
>  > KW  - Porphyrins
>  > KW  - Metalloporphyrins
>  > KW  - Spectrophotometry [methods]
>  > KW  - spectroscopy
>  > RP  - NOT IN FILE
>  > CY  - Amsterdam
>  > PB  - Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
>  > ER  - 
>  > ----------
>  > 
>  > Whereas html output by refdbc (e.g. refdbc: getref :ID:=1 -s ALL -t html) 
>  > prints all available information about the book, db31/db31x output seem to 
>  > 'hide' info about e.g. author and title ....
> 
> The missing authors were a stupid bug which I just fixed in CVS.
> 
> regards,
> Markus
> 
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> 
> 
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[Refdb-users] Problem with installation on Debian too

[B. L. <bl...@he...>]

>
> B. Liu writes:
>  > and under the 'refdbd -s -e 0 -l 7' command window, it showed:
>  > application server started
>  > use /tmp/refdbd_fifo468 as fifo
>  > server waiting n_max_fd=4
>  > accept failed
>
> I've never seen accept fail on any of my boxes (including Debian). Is
> it possible that the default port (9734) is already in use by a different
> program on your box?
>
> regards,
> Markus

Dear Markus

I checked the port number, it is refdb who is using 9734.
command 'lsof -i' shows:
refdbd  324  root    5u  IPv4    688       TCP *:9734 (LISTEN)

After I stop refdb, no service is using 9734.

Other solutions?

Thanks

Bin

Re: [Refdb-users] temp table select failed: An invalid or out-of-range index was passed to libdbi

[Chris K. <ch...@ka...>]

(Sorry for the missing Subject line in my previous posting, I put the right one now)

>This happens when the server child process crashes :-O I've fixed a
>load of bugs in the bibliography code lately, so it would be really
>helpful if you could test the current CVS version. If you don't feel
>like building from CVS, please hold on a couple of days. I'll do
>another prerelease with the most recent bugfixes on the weekend or
>early next week.
>

Hmm... I think I'll wait for the moment. ;-)

> > It would be great if I could get this to work, because I am trying to
incorporate it
> > in a "LyX-SGML" framework: you write in LyX, the rest is done by some scripts of
> > mine. I don't want to tell my users "supply your own bibliography SGML file".
Refdb
> > would fit perfectly here in supplying it.
> >
>
>Sounds like an interesting concept. Is there any public description of
>this setup available?
>

Not yet and quite a few people have asked for it on the LDP discuss list. The only
thing that remains is the bibliography part. As soon as we get this working, I will
write the  docs describing this final part and will release it under the GPL.

You know, I can't release it if I know it's not "perfect", or at least that I have
done everything I could. I guess this is bad in open source environments, where one
should rather release often. But you do the same, as I see, so I am not alone. ;-)

I'll send you the test data off-list.

--
--
Regards

Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de

[Refdb-users] TY - BOOK .. missing info with refdbc and db31/db31x output-format

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

Michael Maechtel writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > since i have to handle a lot of books, I've tested the 
 > TY -- BOOK example which is part of testref.ris :
 > 
 > ---------
 > TY  - BOOK
 > ID  - smith1975metalloporphyrins
 > T1  - Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins

My bad. Should be:
 > BT  - Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins


 > A1  - Smith,K.M.
 > Y1  - 1975///
 > KW  - Porphyrins
 > KW  - Metalloporphyrins
 > KW  - Spectrophotometry [methods]
 > KW  - spectroscopy
 > RP  - NOT IN FILE
 > CY  - Amsterdam
 > PB  - Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
 > ER  - 
 > ----------
 > 
 > Whereas html output by refdbc (e.g. refdbc: getref :ID:=1 -s ALL -t html) 
 > prints all available information about the book, db31/db31x output seem to 
 > 'hide' info about e.g. author and title ....

The missing authors were a stupid bug which I just fixed in CVS.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] (no subject)

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

Chris Karakas writes:
 > Indeed, this fixed the problem: I supplied an author name to every bibliographic
 > entry I use and that error went away. I remember reading in the (excellent)
 > documentation that only one or two fields are required to be filled (I think TY and
 > something else), but the Author field was not mentioned in this context. So I guess
 > it is some bug you will be able to locate and fix after this information - if you
 > need more, just contact me. Bear in mind that I have a lot of "electronic" entries
 > (TY=ELEC), if this makes a difference (but why should it?).
 > 

I'll have to try and see what problems crop up if you use references
without authors. According to the RIS "spec", authors are not
mandatory, but there may be some issues when creating
bibliographies. In order to speed up things...

 > > If this does not fix your problem, please send me a complete
 > > set of data (RIS input file, SGML document, the commands you run to
 > > cause the problem) off-list.
 > >

Would you mind providing some sample data along these lines? This
would allow me to debug this a lot faster.

 > 
 > Well, I get a new behaviour now: the only thing I see is
 > 
 > POS
 > 
 > then it ends without any error messages and the .bib.sgml file is empty! The id.xml
 > file is filled, though (it was filled even with the previous error).
 > 
 > I tried it with both IDs and citation keys in my citations - same result.
 > 
 > I have searched the code a little and saw that this "POS" should actually be, sent
 > to the refdb server - why do I see it on the command line output?
 > 

This happens when the server child process crashes :-O I've fixed a
load of bugs in the bibliography code lately, so it would be really
helpful if you could test the current CVS version. If you don't feel
like building from CVS, please hold on a couple of days. I'll do
another prerelease with the most recent bugfixes on the weekend or
early next week.

 > I included the refdb catalog file in my SGML_CATALOG_FILES, but did not change
 > anything:
 > 

This is not a matter of concern until foo.bib.sgml is created
properly. I'd suggest to get this done first and then revisit the SGML
processing if this still fails.

 > It would be great if I could get this to work, because I am trying to incorporate it
 > in a "LyX-SGML" framework: you write in LyX, the rest is done by some scripts of
 > mine. I don't want to tell my users "supply your own bibliography SGML file". Refdb
 > would fit perfectly here in supplying it.
 > 

Sounds like an interesting concept. Is there any public description of
this setup available?

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] TY - BOOK .. missing info with refdbc and db31/db31x output-format

[Michael M. <mic...@em...>]

Hi,

since i have to handle a lot of books, I've tested the 
TY -- BOOK example which is part of testref.ris :

---------
TY  - BOOK
ID  - smith1975metalloporphyrins
T1  - Porphyrins and metalloporphyrins
A1  - Smith,K.M.
Y1  - 1975///
KW  - Porphyrins
KW  - Metalloporphyrins
KW  - Spectrophotometry [methods]
KW  - spectroscopy
RP  - NOT IN FILE
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company
ER  - 
----------

Whereas html output by refdbc (e.g. refdbc: getref :ID:=1 -s ALL -t html) 
prints all available information about the book, db31/db31x output seem to 
'hide' info about e.g. author and title ....

------------
refdbc: getref :ID:>1 -s ALL -t db31x
<!-- <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE bibliography PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook 
XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-o
pen.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd"> -->
<bibliography>
<title>Bibliography</title>
<biblioentry>
<abbrev>smith1975metalloporphyrins</abbrev>
<biblioset relation="monogr">
<publisher><publishername>Elsevier Scientific Publishing 
Company</publishername><address>Amsterdam</address></publ
isher>
<pubdate>1975</pubdate>
</biblioset>
</biblioentry>
</bibliography>
-------------

Did I miss something important while reading the (brilliant!) doku?

Thanks in advance

Mike

Re: [Refdb-users] (no subject)

[Bruce D'A. <bd...@fa...>]

On Thursday, July 31, 2003, at 03:01  PM, Chris Karakas wrote:

>> I guess the problem you ran into is related to the fact that many of
>> your database entries lack the author string. Would you mind trying
>> again, giving each entry at least one mock author? If this fixes your
>> problem, I can go back to the sources and try to work around the
>> problem.
>
> Indeed, this fixed the problem:

Having been trying to convince the MODS people of the need for 
attributes to indicate unattributed and anonymous authors, I can tell 
you this is an important issue for me.  I've got records for articles 
with no author (for example, the Economist does not list author names 
on articles), records for which I know there is an author but cannot 
figure out what it is (think an archival document), and even a few real 
anonymous authors (which is different).

So, obviously I hope the bug gets fixed.  Longer term, maybe we can 
look at this issue for future revisions (of citestylex, etc.)?

Bruce

[Refdb-users] Problem with installation on Debian too

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

B. Liu writes:
 > and under the 'refdbd -s -e 0 -l 7' command window, it showed:
 > application server started
 > use /tmp/refdbd_fifo468 as fifo
 > server waiting n_max_fd=4
 > accept failed

I've never seen accept fail on any of my boxes (including Debian). Is
it possible that the default port (9734) is already in use by a different
program on your box?

regards,
Markus

-- 
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mar...@ca...
(Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka")
http://www.mhoenicka.de

[Refdb-users] (no subject)

[Chris K. <ch...@ka...>]

Markus Hoenicka wrote:
>
> Hi Chris,
>

Hi Markus,


> I guess the problem you ran into is related to the fact that many of
> your database entries lack the author string. Would you mind trying
> again, giving each entry at least one mock author? If this fixes your
> problem, I can go back to the sources and try to work around the
> problem.

Indeed, this fixed the problem: I supplied an author name to every bibliographic
entry I use and that error went away. I remember reading in the (excellent)
documentation that only one or two fields are required to be filled (I think TY and
something else), but the Author field was not mentioned in this context. So I guess
it is some bug you will be able to locate and fix after this information - if you
need more, just contact me. Bear in mind that I have a lot of "electronic" entries
(TY=ELEC), if this makes a difference (but why should it?).

> If this does not fix your problem, please send me a complete
> set of data (RIS input file, SGML document, the commands you run to
> cause the problem) off-list.
>

Well, I get a new behaviour now: the only thing I see is

POS

then it ends without any error messages and the .bib.sgml file is empty! The id.xml
file is filled, though (it was filled even with the previous error).

I tried it with both IDs and citation keys in my citations - same result.

I have searched the code a little and saw that this "POS" should actually be, sent
to the refdb server - why do I see it on the command line output?

I included the refdb catalog file in my SGML_CATALOG_FILES, but did not change
anything:

SGML_CATALOG_FILES="/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.iso_ent"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook-dsssl-stylesheets"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_3"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/CATALOG.docbook_4"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/openjade/catalog"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/stylesheets/sgmltools/sgmltools.cat"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/sgml/dtd/sgmltools/catalog"
SGML_CATALOG_FILES="$SGML_CATALOG_FILES:/usr/share/refdb/refdb.cat"
export SGML_CATALOG_FILES

I use:

expat-1.95.2-15
docbook_3-3.1-98
docbook_4-4.1-97
docbook-dsssl-stylesheets-1.72-34
docbook-xml-website-2.0a2-27
docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.42-34
html-dtd-2001.11.7-0
iso_ent-2000.11.03-122
jade_dsl-1.2.1-369
openjade-1.3-289
sgmltools-lite-3.0.2-164
tei-3-331

all from SuSE. I have the feeling that I may be missing something that has to do
with XML processing, since I concentrate on SGML and never bothered with XML. Let me
know what other you need.

It would be great if I could get this to work, because I am trying to incorporate it
in a "LyX-SGML" framework: you write in LyX, the rest is done by some scripts of
mine. I don't want to tell my users "supply your own bibliography SGML file". Refdb
would fit perfectly here in supplying it.

I appreciate your patience with my rants. I am not as cool as I would like to be
lately.

--
Regards

Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de

--
--
Regards

Chris Karakas
http://www.karakas-online.de

[Refdb-users] Problem with installation on Debian too

[B. L. <bl...@he...>]

Dear Markus,

I have problem to install refdb on my Debian woody testing as well.

I have mysql database server, libdbi0, libdbi0-dev, and libdbd-mysql
installed using debian package.

When I run refdba:viewstat, the following error message was shown:
server error: incorrect scramble string

and under the 'refdbd -s -e 0 -l 7' command window, it showed:
application server started
use /tmp/refdbd_fifo468 as fifo
server waiting n_max_fd=4
accept failed
server waiting n_max_fd=4

Do you have any idea about this?

Regards

Bin

Re: [Refdb-users] Problem with installation.

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

Michael Maechtel writes:
 > Did you install the MySQL database server driver for libdbi?
 > I had to do this on my testing debian system in addition to the libdbi
 > packages. On my debian testing system this package is named
 > "libdbd-mysql".
 > 

This should indeed fix the problem. As this seems to be a common
pitfall, I've added some code to check the available drivers when refdbd
starts up.

regards,
Markus

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[Refdb-users] ANN: posting to this list restricted

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi all,

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Re: [Refdb-users] Problem with installation.

[Michael M. <mic...@em...>]

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:46, Jason Crosswhite wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been pulling my hair out for hours now, and am giving up for now.  I
> hope somebody here can give me more information to go on.
>
> I've installed refdb & unsundry libraries and programs.  Some perhaps
> relevant info:
>
> linux debian stable
> refdb version 0.9.2
> libdbi version 0.7.1
> btparse version btparse-0.33
Did you install the MySQL database server driver for libdbi?
I had to do this on my testing debian system in addition to the libdbi
packages. On my debian testing system this package is named
"libdbd-mysql".

Mike

[Refdb-users] Problem with installation.

[Jason C. <ja...@ne...>]

Hello,

I've been pulling my hair out for hours now, and am giving up for now.  I hope 
somebody here can give me more information to go on.

I've installed refdb & unsundry libraries and programs.  Some perhaps relevant 
info:

linux debian stable
refdb version 0.9.2
libdbi version 0.7.1
btparse version btparse-0.33

Other libraries etc. came from debian stable and a few from unstable.

My problem is this.  I don't seem to be able to connect to my mysql database, 
event though it really seems like I should be able to.  Following the 
"testing" section in the manual:

---- snip ----
jason@laplace:~$ refdbd -s -V -e 0 -l 7 
application server started
use /tmp/refdbd_fifo32628 as fifo
server waiting n_max_fd=4
adding client on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=5
parent removing client on fd 5
server waiting n_max_fd=4
try to read from client
serving client on fd 5 with protocol version 1
120-04-08-22
send pseudo-random string to client
viewstat  -u root -w 073048090073059083
dbi is up
localhost
root
xxxpasswordxxx

3306
mysql
f
creating database connection structure failed
command processing done, finish dialog now
child finished client on fd 5
child exited with code 0
server waiting n_max_fd=4
---- snip ----

I think the "creating database connection structure failed" is important, but 
I'm not sure how to interpret it.

And in another window:

---- snip ----
jason@laplace:~$ refdba -u root -w xxxpasswordxxx
refdba: set
serverip 127.0.0.1
port 9734
verbose f
pager less
username root
timeout 30
logfile /var/log/refdba.log
logdest 1
loglevel INFO
refdblib
refdba: viewstat  #less gives: could not connect to database server here
refdba: quit
---- snip ----

I get a "could not connect to database server here" error from refdba, as I 
tried to annotate in the above.  But now in the same terminal I can do:

---- snip ----
jason@laplace:~$ mysql -u root --password=xxxpasswordxxx -P 3306
Welcome to the MySQL monitor.  Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 13 to server version: 3.23.49-log

Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the buffer.

mysql> use refdb1
Reading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A

Database changed
mysql> quit
Bye
jason@laplace:~$mysqlshow -u root --password=xxxpasswordxxx refdb1
Database: refdb1
+-----------------+
|     Tables      |
+-----------------+
| CITSTYLE        |
| POSITIONS       |
| REFSTYLE        |
| SEPARATORS      |
| t_journal_words |
+-----------------+
---- snip ----

So I mysql is obviously working, and I seem to have made the database fine.

Can somebody please float me a clue!!!???
-- 
-Jason Crosswhite
 Graduate Research Assistant
 University of Oregon
 Geophysics Group

[Refdb-users] using refdb with 'chunk.xsl' ?

[Markus H. <mar...@mh...>]

Hi,

I've never attempted chunking with XML document as it appears to
depend on non-standard extensions of the XSLT processors and the
stylesheets. I can't tell off the top of my head why it doesn't work
with the RefDB driver files.

Did you ever consider using the DSSSL stylesheets instead? Chunking is
the default here and works just fine.

regards,
Markus
 
Michael Maechtel writes:
 > Hi,
 > 
 > Since my documentation grows and grows i would like to split up
 > my HTML output file into multiple files.  Normally I do this by using 
 > "nwalsh/html/chunk.xsl". 
 > 
 > "docbk-html/docbk-refdb-html.xsl" imports "nwalsh/html/docbook.xsl" so
 > i changed this to import chunk.xsl with only partial success .. 
 > The "Reference Chapter" is on the index.html and the 
 > citation link does not work ...
 > 
 > How do I correctly include/import the chunk.xsl or where do I have to change
 > the docbk-html/docbk-refdb-html.xsl file?
 > 
 > 

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